Huawei Honor Metal-Clad Voice-Calling Budget Tablet Launched

Huawei on Saturday has silently launched its metal-clad Honor Tablet in Malaysia priced at RM 599 (approximately Rs. 11,200). The Huawei Honor Tablet is now available on pre-order through company's online store. The tablet seems to be only available in Malaysia for now, with no word on its global release.

The voice-calling Huawei Honor Tablet runs Android 4.3 Jelly Bean with Emotion UI 1.6 skinned on top according to Soyacincau. It features an 8-inch IPS display with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels and 188 pixels per inch (ppi) density.

The Honor Tablet features a quad-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM8212 processor coupled with 1GB of RAM. The primary camera on the tablet is a 5-megapixel shooter (no flash) and there is a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front facing camera for video calls.

The device packs an internal storage of 16GB which is further expandable via microSD card (up to 32GB). Connectivity options on Huawei Honor Tablet include Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS/ A-GPS and 3G, apart from voice calling.

Huawei Honor Tablet measures 210.6x127.7x7.9mm and weighs 360 grams. The 4800mAh battery on the tablet is rated at up to 300 hours of standby time. The Honor Tablet can be pre-ordered from Huawei's online store Vmall.my.

Last week, Huawei had also launched the Honor 4 Play smartphone priced at CNY 799 (approximately Rs. 7,900). The Honor 4 Play smartphone offers dual-SIM support and features a 5-inch HD IPS display with a 720x1280 pixel resolution. The smartphone runs on Android 4.4 KitKat paired with its native Emotion UI 2.3.

The Honor 4 Play features a 64-bit 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) processor, coupled with an Adreno 306 GPU (320MHz) and 1GB of RAM.